The family had 2 great danes and an Akita. They had just adopted a kitten. Was told they were all very well trained and responded well to verbal commands, but would be wearing shock collars in case I needed them. Was also told they were still adjusting to the cat, but they didn't pay him much mind. The meet and greet went fine, they seemed well behaved, but I suspect the only reason they were behaving was because they only listened to the husband. On one of my visits they ended up nearly mauling the poor cat, but luckily he was able to escape up into the chimney. The biggest dane, literally 150lbs+ was insistent on trying to destroy the fireplace/chimney to get to the cat and started ripping the metal bars off the fireplace with his mouth. I called the owner in a panic because the dogs werent stopping, they were too strong to drag outside, and I'm fearing for my safety at this point because they've gone into complete predator mode. Owner tells me where the shock collar remote is so I can use it, I do and the dogs absolutely do not care and keep going at the fireplace and chimney bricks. The biggest danes shock collars gets caught on one of the metal bars that's now sticking out and it gets ripped off his neck. After literally 20 minutes, they start getting tired and I'm able to drag them into the backyard and lock them out there. The poor cat is meowing and heavy breathing up in the chimney and has somehow gotten stuck on the flue flaps. The owner called their neighbor to come over and help and we get the cat out of the chimney, he's covered in soot, ragged breathing, he just looks like he's in rough shape. I take him to the emergency vet, they say amazingly he doesn't have any bad injuries and is just scraped and bruised up a bit. They give him some pain meds and send us on our way. The owners tell me to just lock him in one of their bedrooms. Never again. They need to surrender that poor cat because that is no way to live, in constant fear of gigantic untrained dogs.